Banjo, left, and Peanut were part of the family before the kids came along. Photo courtesy of Sara Paulson Camodeca/FLORIDA TODAY

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Sara Paulson Camodeca
| FLORIDA TODAY

He was younger than me, but he was cute, had adorable brown eyes and was super smart. He loved the literary classics. And even better? He was witty.

His name was Wishbone. He was a fictional character with a voiceover on a PBS show of the same name. (I blame my mom, a middle-school English teacher, for getting me hooked). From that point on, I had a thing for Jack Russell terriers. ...